| Softimage Xsi: Lighting/association problems |
| Hi, i'm new to XSI, and this is my first attempt at a short animation. I'm trying to achieve a sharp crisp shadow cast by the ant with an infinite light, and a soft-edged shadow cast by the body of ... |
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| Softimage Xsi: toon rendering |
| I'v got some questions on the toon rendering.
First of all is there a way to transform a toon paint and host into a simple toon paint with keeping the properties like colors or texture ???
Then I ... |
| Softimage Xsi: instances and deformations |
| I am doing a quick cityscape and need several bridges spanning from one point to another. I did the bridges by modelling one arc and instancing it along the way to keep the scene efficient. I also in ... |
| 3ds Max: blocking animation - Step controller |
| Hi there,
I have been trying to block out some animation done with a bones setup in Max 5, and I thought it would be really helpfull to be able to set a step controller temperarily on objects (so ... |
| 3ds Max: CV Splines |
| Ok, CV curves are nubrs, but so much way more predictable. So is there a way script etc) to have such tools in edit spline ? Oh yeah, nurbs is nurbs, spline is spline ? humm so anyway to convert a cv ... |
| Softimage Xsi: Cloth - Folds And Crashing |
| hi ,
i am using cloth for my character and the article of clothing has a thickness to it , when i run the simulation the polys crash and overlap each other, anyways to keep them apart?
also anyo ... |
| Softimage Xsi: Script (time) warp on clip |
| Hello!
I want to import some data from a selfgenerated file. It would be great if it was possible to do a (time)warp on a clip in the Animation Mixer via scripting. The console doesn't log the act ... |
| Softimage Xsi: HELP wanted- Warhammer 40K Vehicle/Close quar |
| http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=andthreadid=134052 ... |
| 3ds Max: Video Post question |
| I have a little prob when working in video post for 3dsmax 5.
The effect is clearly visible when i render but it doesnt show up in the .avi i made. My render queue looks like this:
Lens Effects ... |
| 3ds Max: move and rotate gizmo in one |
| Dunno if this thread has disappear with the board problems last few days. This sounds promising and usefull (like messiah and maya). Like usual, some don't like it, some would love it.
So ? nice an ... |
| 3ds Max: Maxscript question |
| I posted this question in the discreet board, and im also trying here just cuz i need the result fairly quick. This is for any maxscript gurus out there!
"I was wondering if its possible to ... |
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| Softimage Xsi: New German XSI Forum |
| hi.
i just opened a german xsi forum with a small contest.
www.xsiforum.de
cheers chris ... |
| Softimage Xsi: Proportional move of texture? |
| I guess it is easier to explain by example:
create a cube with 10 subdivisions of each face,
add texture and cylindrical projection,
open texture editor,
select all the points of the upper fa ... |
| Softimage Xsi: render .mi from maya through XSI |
| I am currently doing a job for a client that has a render farm. They have offered me the use of their farm and I would love to take advantage of it, but am having some initial problems. I am running ... |
| 3ds Max: f-curves refuse to show up |
| Hi,
Has anybody experienced this annoying Max 5 behavior, where no matter what you do you cannot get a track view to show in f-curve mode, even if you select curves from the track bar Mode menu, ... |
| Softimage Xsi: Lightmapping and/or Luminosity map? |
| Hi, Ive been searching around for tutorials on how to set up lighmaps/luminosity maps in XSI, but I'm coming up empty handed. I been routing around in the Render Tree for some time and I cant seem to ... |
| Softimage Xsi: Converting path animation to keyframe |
| I have an object that is animated along a curve, when i save this, the animation is lost, even though it is still shown in the f curve editor.
I cant figure out whats going on, so im thinking that ... |
| 3ds Max: freaky bones |
| ok, ok, I don't have much experience working with bones...can anybody tell me what is going on here ?
I created a couple of bones and moved the pivot points into position (using the 'affect pivot ... |
| 3ds Max: Particle Swirling? |
| I'm trying to work out a way of localising a particle swirl effect with a space warp in a PCloud. Basically I'm trying to create a PCloud box and swirl the inner particles and leave the outer particl ... |
| Softimage Xsi: undo not = undo (skeleton) |
| cant find that thread to a similiar problem anymore but why is the undo not working properly on bones/ skeletons sometimes? is that an xsi problem only or general in 3d?
when you constrained an eff ... |
| 3ds Max: link constraint |
| Hi, I'm trying to link two bones. When I link it, the slave automatically takes the coordinates axis of the master bone as reference: how to make it independent ? ... |
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| Softimage Xsi: Could not load metrics file: fonts.mwd |
| "fonts.mwd: version mismatch expecting version 15
Could not load metrics file: fonts.mwd"
This message comes up in the linux terminal when i run XSI after I change re XSI layout to 102 ... |
| Softimage Xsi: particle deformation and motion vectors |
| hi all. im currently running into an annoying problem when deforming a particle stream along a curve: the velocity vectors tangency is not maintained, therefore no proper motion blur can be computed ... |
| 3ds Max: Incorrect Radiosity solving! |
| I'm rendering a scene using Radiosity lightning.
The problem is in light reflection. A surface should reflect light only when it is illuminated, but in my case it's illuminated even in the shadow ... |
| 3ds Max: Metaball Plugins Question |
| Metareyes5 vs Clay studio pro. Does anyone know which is
better? And do they both work with Max5?
Thanks
Meggo ... |
| 3ds Max: Character studio animation |
| Hi!
I'm buliding a model that I want to test to rig in CS.
She's got boots on and gloves etc.. they are seperate models and not part of the body itself.
What shall I do to link them to the body ... |
| Softimage Xsi: XSI weighting and deforming for a game engine |
| Im building a game model for Half Life 2 and I am enveloping the finished model to animate. The question I have is that the default pose has its arms out to the sides (horizontal). After I weight t ... |
| Softimage Xsi: wind blown papers |
| I'm trying to make a stack of papers blow off of a desk, swirl around a room and then fly out a window.
Does anyone know any good ways to accomplish this or know of any tutorials out there? Is it ... |
| Softimage Xsi: Avid buys NXN alienbrain |
| http://www.softimage.com/home/Press/PressReleases/040126_News_NXN.htm
seems like lots of potential for alienbrain to be more integrated with XSI. Anyone here used it extensively? ... |
| 3ds Max: Import > 3DS = glowing verts? |
| This has been really vexing me.
When I'm modeling something, I export it to 3DS for various other uses. One that I've been working on imports with glowing verts. They glow this nasty shade of gree ... |
| 3ds Max: Make your thread version specific! |
| I reiterate to everyone:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=andthreadid=28283
It would really help if you added what version of max you use in either your thread title or your post.
Just ... |
| 3ds Max: Need help with Character Tool |
| Hi !
First post ever in these forums !
Well, here is the problem :
I animated a walk cyclewith the Character Tool and and when I try to do "insert animation", every time I do it t ... |
| Softimage Xsi: auto launching flipbook |
| Is there any way to make flipbook launch automaticly after render is completed. I mean I want to see the final reslut just like with preview. Why rendering window is closing after render is over? I k ... |
| Softimage Xsi: Texturing: varying UV repeats on texture |
| Hi,
ive got one texture that has grass and edges of grass. i have mapped the points that are plain grass and the points that are the edges of the grass onto the relevent textures, but i need the te ... |
| Softimage Xsi: Growing/Evolving |
| Hello,
this is a more or less general post, not necessarily application-specific:
In 3D, you commonly have geometry, meshes with quite fixed point counts and all the problems that brings. Yet, ... |
| 3ds Max: V-ray rendering probl. - black artfacts |
| I am rendering an animated scene with Vray using GI with irradiance map.
I am using mutiframe incremental and after few frames of render I get small black sharp areas popping here and there in the ... |
| 3ds Max: My max exits while saving [Max5] |
| hi every one.i m havig a painfull problem....my max exit s while saving...this never hapened when i used max 3,4,4.2...but it's now a problem...i m unable to work..plzz help....:| ... |
| 3ds Max: Leopord Head |
| heya, this is sort of like a leopord head cortoony head. Here it is, crits are welcomed, I did it poly modeling:
http://uploader.axsstudios.com/images/Leopord%20Head2.jpg ... |
| Softimage Xsi: import dotXSI in Softimage3.9 |
| Hi everyone! I am new here! I have a question when I was exporting a simple character (with bones and weightings) to dotXSI in XSI, and then import it to softimage3.9, it works fine except all expre ... |
| Softimage Xsi: What's the modernode-based architecture mean |
| Hi there~
I am wondering what the "XSI has a modern node-based architecture that is modular and extensible." means in Funamental pdf.
Anyideas? Thx!
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| Softimage Xsi: Interoperability. |
| Have any of you tested Softimage XSI's ability to exchange AAF information with high-end compositing systems? I realise that Softimage and DS would be a proverbial match made in heaven, but how well ... |
| 3ds Max: question for visualboo |
| yes i got a little question regarding one of your Timelapse
in one of them you buildup a Tube from scrath without extruding it to a path, im asking this because i tryed to reproduse that but i nee ... |
| 3ds Max: vrml problem |
| hey guys
I have a small problem with a vrml file, I have from Irix explorer.
It stores a huge amount of 'dots' for me in a vrml file, and my problem is that when I import the file into 3ds max, ... |
| 3ds Max: Why Render to Texture feature doesn't work with GI? |
| It crashes. I tried both LightTracer and Radiosity.
:mad: ... |
| 3ds Max: TabletPC's use Gestures for input much like Strokes |
| Isn't that kind of cool? I wonder if we'll see Max being implimented on TabletPC's anytime soon :).
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/using/howto/gestures.asp
I just thought it was ... |
| 3ds Max: help with texture sampling |
| Hey there I need a little bit of help I'm not sure where I can turn this up so the spec highlights are more smooth if you take a look at the pic the spec just doesn't cut it. THanks for any help. ... |
| 3ds Max: Question : Tutorial - Water |
| Hello guys,
Can I find a tutorial which teaches me how to design a sea and and object getting out of the sea .. ... |
| 3ds Max: i NEED TO MAKE THIS A DIFRENT FORMAT.. |
| HI,
http://3dcafe.com/models/chaoswarrior.zip
THAT IS THIS mech i found on 3D cafe. i want to play around with it. but i dont use 3D max. could you make it to a .3ds? ... |
| 3ds Max: Extension |
| http://www.discreet.com/subscription/
The Design Extension consists of a robust set of tools for undertaking design visualization projects. Virtually all specialized design functionality included ... |
| 3ds Max: Maxscript rotation woes... |
| Hey,
I'm working with linking paramaters and maxscript expression controllers not for the first time, but im still fairly new at it.
What I have is a "spine" object for a robot charac ... |
